Question

Please explain the features that lobe finned fishes evolved to become terrestrial tetrapods with examples.

Answer 1

Features are paired, Pelvic fins that are each articulated via a single bone and paired flashy pectoral fin. Ancestral records are definitely show us that terrestrial vertebrates evolved from lobe-fins fishes nearly 400mya.Lobe finned fishes share common ancestors with tetrapods

EXAMPLE:-

In 1938 a fish caught in South Africa happened to be COELOCANTH(LATIMERIA) which was thought to be extinct. These animals called LOBEFINS evolved into the first amphibians that lived on both land and water .There are no specimen of these left with us. However this were ancestor of modern day frog and salamander .The amphibian evolved into reptiles.